"Little labour"? I'm sure that would be extremely funny to anyone  
hacking a living out of the Virginia wilderness at the time. It was  
probably dawn to dusk labor. Sounds like the good Governor was  
reading one too many pamphlets about the glories of the new colony.

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Mar 7, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Kevin Joel Berland wrote:

> And yet another much earlier usuage, measuring the time assigned for
> transportation sentences:
>
> Governor Spotswood to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and  
> Plantations, April
> 5, 1717:
>
> "The Inhabitants of our frontiers are composed generally of such as  
> have been
> transported hither as Servants, and being out of their time, and  
> settle
> themselves where Land is to be taken up and that will produce the  
> necessarys of
> Life with little Labour." Official Letters of Alexander Spotswood,  
> II, 227
>
> Cheers -- KJB
>
>

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